Q. What is an ARP? Does it stand for Association of Repressed Presbyterians?
A. No, actually, who we are was well put by another ARP pastor. We are kind of like Shoebox Greetings-- a tiny little division of Hallmark--we are a small group of Presbyterians that hail all the way back to Scotland where the Associates and Reformed groups pulled out of the Church of Scotland due to difficulties that in good conscience they could not go along with. And, when they both came stateside they merged together because the minor differences they had in Scotland were not as big a deal here. There are about 250 churches here in the US that include a wide variety with Spanish, Korean, Arabic and other language groups included.We are theologically conservative and hold to the Westminster Confession of Faith as a subordinate document to the Bible.